RWA vs. STEM, PRV, RCDO, SHI, VP, ELIX, FNTL, LUCE, CHRT, and ITM
Should you be buying Robert Walters stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Robert Walters include SThree (STEM), Porvair (PRV), Ricardo (RCDO), SIG (SHI), VP (VP), Elixirr International (ELIX), Fintel (FNTL), Luceco (LUCE), Cohort (CHRT), and ITM Power (ITM). These companies are all part of the "industrials" sector.
Robert Walters (LON:RWA) and SThree (LON:STEM) are both small-cap industrials companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, analyst recommendations, valuation, risk, dividends and institutional ownership.
Robert Walters pays an annual dividend of GBX 24 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.5%. SThree pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Robert Walters pays out 6,857.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SThree pays out 4,047.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
SThree has a net margin of 3.37% compared to Robert Walters' net margin of 1.26%. SThree's return on equity of 26.48% beat Robert Walters' return on equity.
Robert Walters has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SThree has a beta of 0.96, meaning that its share price is 4% less volatile than the S&P 500.
77.4% of Robert Walters shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 79.6% of SThree shares are owned by institutional investors. 19.5% of Robert Walters shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.3% of SThree shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Robert Walters received 431 more outperform votes than SThree when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 86.67% of users gave SThree an outperform vote while only 84.94% of users gave Robert Walters an outperform vote.
SThree has higher revenue and earnings than Robert Walters. SThree is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Robert Walters, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
SThree has a consensus price target of GBX 470, indicating a potential upside of 9.56%. Given SThree's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SThree is more favorable than Robert Walters.
In the previous week, Robert Walters and Robert Walters both had 2 articles in the media. Robert Walters' average media sentiment score of 0.69 beat SThree's score of 0.30 indicating that Robert Walters is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
SThree beats Robert Walters on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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